Consistently Deliver High-Quality Software

You’ve already heard from me today, but I couldn’t not share this article from BBC News Principal Engineer James Donohue titled Looks Good To Me: Making code reviews better for remote-first teams. This article provides an insightful view into the challenges faced by a development team that expanded its headcount rapidly, transitioned from in-person-only to … [Full Article]

Following up on yesterday’s source control question, reader Stephen also wrote in with several great questions of his own: One change I’ve been working to implement is one UE/CLI script for every record type for any client of ours. The UE/CLI contains a bare minimum call into a module/library that does the heavy lifting. As … [Full Article]

I’ve been battling a fierce case of writer’s block all morning (all weekend, actually), trying to figure out what to send you today. Precipitously, your fellow Sustainable SuiteScript reader Eric Schultz wrote in on his horse to save the day with an excellent question about deployment collision when working with multiple developers. I can’t help … [Full Article]

When I started my first SuiteScript job nearly a decade ago, seven developers shared a single branch of a single SVN repository. All of our code – for over 30 different NetSuite accounts at the time – lived in a giant monolith. For the smaller clients who required a single developer once in a while, … [Full Article]

Last Friday, I launched a free email course: Planning your Source Control Strategy for SuiteScript. It is not a tutorial; it does not attempt to teach you source control commands or tactics. Rather, it aims to help you identify the types of problems and ask the right questions which source control can help your team … [Full Article]